Tonight will probably be organic, store bought butternut squash soup. Due to my ascites fluid pressing against all my organs, including my stomach (sound yummy yet?) I don’t eat much. The soup is the Imagine brand and it’s actually very, very good. A little dollop of creme fraiche, a couple tortilla strips…dinner. And not to terribly much sodium.
Ta. Neither of those things exist here. Pizza steak wasn’t too far off what I expected, I suppose, but pasta as takeaway - and pasta shells being that size - is so far out of my frame of reference that I think I’d have exhausted a fairly sizeable quantity of speculative options before I’d ever have come up with that.
Stuffed shells are pasta shells stuffed with ricotta cheese and usually topped with melted mozzarella and marinara sauce. A pizza steak is a cheesesteak sandwich but it comes with marinara sauce on it. Different places may use different kinds of cheese, provolone or mozzarella for example. 
Pork schnitzel, following the directions here:
… with some sliced cuke and maybe a bit of tomato.
I have bronchitis on top of recovering from breast cancer surgery, so dinner for me is going to be pastina in chicken stock I have in the freezer. Maybe I’ll get jazzy and toss on a little grated Romano. But I’m happily living vicariously through your dinner plans!
Splurged and stopped at a bistro downtown for rib eye steak and frites with bernaise. $38 apiece, which is sticker shock, but it was pretty good.
Big ol’ salad with butter lettuce, leftover roasted chicken, spring onion, olives, a hard cooked egg, Gorgonzola crumbles, grape tomatoes, avocado and roasted sunflower seeds, dressed with a nice homemade balsamic vinegar, garlic and oil dressing. Enjoyed it with a favorite glass of Sauvignon Blanc.
Roast pork, roast spuds, completely forgot to get any parsnips which is a bit of a pain in the arse, leeks, broccoli, rainbow chard, apple sauce. Gravy. Potentially carrots, if I can find any room on the plates.
Happy Easter. As we don’t have a big, jolly family to load up with festive eggs, jello molds, and home-made biscuits to go with the glowing spiral ham, I had planned absolutely nothing special. Woke up feeling lousy - I may rally later and grab a rotisserie chicken. Or send someone out for Arbys.
I have no idea. The fridge is full of random bits of leftovers, and I haven’t defrosted anything. Probably whatever looks good at Mariano’s a bit later. Note to self: make sure they are open today! I wish my mom hadn’t called while we were literally in the car on the way to her house for Seder to say that she had absolutely no wine in the house, or I would have taken a bit more time and taken a look around then.
We are going to my in-laws. I think the menu is ham, pineapple casserole of some sort, salad and I don’t know what else.
Roast duck. I should have just gotten a chicken. Wild rice stuffing. Leftover butter lettuce from the Seder. And I guess we’ll finish the lemon angel pie for dessert, too.
I’ve thawed a chicken, so we’re having roasted chicken. I think I’ll attempt mashed cauliflower. I’ll probably also make asparagus.
As we were gifted with kale in the produce box this week, last night we made another round of caldo verde, with some house made Polish sausage from the supermarket deli ((kielbasa swojska to be specific – they have about a dozen or so styles of Polish sausage they sell there.) I now look forward to getting kale in the produce box! 
Today, we’re just going to the folks’, and I’m assuming roast lamb and/or ham, żurek/biały barszcz (Polish sour soup), potatoes, red cabbage, maybe some white sausage, possibly pickled herring in there somewhere, too.
Roast duck. I should have just gotten a chicken. Wild rice stuffing. Leftover butter lettuce from the Seder. And I guess we’ll finish the lemon angel pie for dessert, too.
Roasted chicken for Easter dinner here as well. But with brussels sprouts and mashed potatoes.
Went to Houseman in the far West Village (Greenwich & Spring Sts.) last night; Little Banjo’s last night on break before heading back to school.
We’re having salmon. Found a filet in the freezer this morning, so it pushed Chinese food off the menu.
Cajun Salmon Rub
1 tsp cumin seed
2 tsp dried basil
2 tsp dried oregano
2 tsp dried thyme
2 TBSP chilli powder
Big pinch pepper
Big pinch salt
Should be enough for 1 lb salmon
Preheat the oven to 400ºF. You can use salmon filets, or you can cut the filets into 2-inch squares for appetisers. Press the flesh side and the skin side of the salmon into the rub. Heat olive oil in a cast-iron pan to just below the smoke point. Cook the fish for… Oh, I don’t know. Maybe four minutes, maximum. Depends on the thickness of the fish. Turn the fish, and cook for two minutes. Put into the hot oven and cook for a couple/few minutes. The trick is to not over-cook, which dries the fish out.
Serve with mac’n’cheese, and steamed broccoli.
Sounds great. Thanks. (Although we tend to do salmon pretty plain) Completely agree on the “don’t overcook” and the “mac’n cheese!”